Was just looking at the donations ticker…

It seems as though donations have almost stopped flowing in since this JD Vance announcement.

Some how I forgot were supposed to VET [THEM]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/trump-vice-president-picks-records-00161936

A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel’s big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary

The former Trump critic leaned on a super PAC and his billionaire patron to put him in position for Trump’s all-important endorsement.

By ALEX ISENSTADT

05/03/2022 11:08 PM EDT

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary — but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.

“Peter would like to make another contribution to the PAC, this time for $1.5 million,” a top Thiel lieutenant wrote to strategists running a pro-Vance super PAC in an April 26 email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. “We are planning to send the wire today, but before doing so I just wanted to confirm you have everything you need from us.”

With that previously unreported donation, Thiel had given $15 million in total to bolster Vance — the largest amount ever given to boost a single Senate candidate. Thiel is a contrarian who became famous for making risky investments that paid off — and with Vance’s win in Tuesday’s primary, the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook financier struck it big again.

Vance was hardly a sure thing. His campaign was outspent by his better-funded rivals, and he had a long history of making anti-Trump statements that could have gone over poorly with GOP primary voters. In February, his campaign suffered a damaging leak of confidential polling data that painted a grim picture of his prospects, chilled his fundraising and set off a forensic hunt for a potential mole.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jd-vance-win-ohio-primary-00029881